Sentence examples for tornado hazards from inspiring English sources

We then illustrate the feasibility of the proposed framework by de-aggregating the resilience goals of a community residential building cluster through an inverse multi-objective optimization formulation to obtain the minimum performance objectives for residential buildings, for tornado hazards.

The aims of this study are twofold: to assess the performance of light-frame wood residential buildings under tornado hazards, and to link performance of individual building components to building system performance so that the effect of implementing improved construction techniques can be quantified.

Moreover current problems in tornado hazard assessment in China are discussed.

The tornado hazard has been assessed for a nuclear power plant located in the Southeast China in this paper.

Tornado hazard assessment for a single critical facility such as a hospital or a power generation station is well established.

The tornado hazard tends to decrease by one order of magnitude as the separation increases by one order of magnitude.

This study is focused on a sensitivity analysis of the tornado hazard considering multiple 'facilities' with different orientations, footprints and spatial separations.

The tornado hazard is expressed in terms of the annual probability that the maximum gust wind speed due to the same tornado exceeds a specified value at two facilities or transmission line systems.

However, a quantitative tornado hazard assessment for a group of facilities, for a pair of points or areas, or for transmission lines, including consideration of the towers, is not available, although it is expected that an increase in the spatial separation among critical facilities is likely to reduce the hazard for all facilities experiencing the same tornado.

This could cause broken glass to fly during the tornado, creating a hazard.

However, interdisciplinary outreach that focuses on improving public knowledge of not only the hazards from tornadoes and high wind but also the need for improved structural design is still critically needed (Prevatt et al. 2012).